Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cigarettes , so cheap and in such large numbers , were snapped up even by non-smokers , who regarded them as some new kind of currency ; and the little bottles , so exquisitely miniature , ‘ twee ’ , as Sister Dew put it , could have nothing wicked about them even for teetotallers . |
| 2 | Her mum and dad had talked of nothing else for days . |
| 3 | But we do take some of them on for work experience — we have to remember that we 'll always need a pool of new photographers to choose from . ’ |
| 4 | He was always punctilious ; she did not have a diary ; today must be the day she had thought so far off when he had proposed meeting Kit and Astrid in Paris and then taking all of them out for lunch . |
| 5 | ( If you want to buy a magazine with your wealth , I think I know of one up for grabs . ) |
| 6 | About 50 per cent disapproved of it even for men . |
| 7 | ‘ Miss Morgan got some of it just for life ? |
| 8 | soft and fresh for you not for ducks . |
| 9 | She had worked like nobody else for years , right from when she was ten , and before that , hard manual labour . |
| 10 | Sha Sharon 's not going out with them now for Christmas . |
| 11 | Or you could go to bed with him just for fun and one day you 'd suddenly find you were in love with his body and you could n't live without it and you 'd be stuck with his rotten mind for ever and ever . |
| 12 | I read in the ministerial journals — the Secretary of State for the Environment will certainly know about it — that the Minister of State said that , once a person is in a band , his property would be in it probably for perpetuity . |
| 13 | No silly plus-fours for him just for effect and image . |
| 14 | Come to me then for instructions . ’ |
| 15 | One good way of judging a well-planned interview schedule of the formal type is to ask ‘ Could this schedule be handed over to someone else for analysis without them having to go back to the interviewer to ask what certain answers mean ? ’ |
| 16 | Dear Rosemary , I know you must receive hundreds of letters like mine but I have been meaning to write to you now for ages . |
| 17 | His father 's favouring of Chuck had forced him to turn to her increasingly for solace , and that some unimaginable selfishness should have driven her to commit her dreadful act of desertion baffled and disturbed him deeply for reasons he did n't begin to understand . |
| 18 | ‘ I had n't talked to her properly for weeks . |
| 19 | It was that sort of attitude that would prevent Craig from coming to her directly for help . |
| 20 | The American champion relied on him implicitly for club selection . |
| 21 | It means looking to Jesus , and not to anyone else for direction and support . |
| 22 | They subscribe to it not for reasons of caprice , but because eminent judicial authority has reiterated the notion over the years . |
| 23 | If you can , memorise the script section by section , so that you only need refer to it occasionally for confirmation . |
| 24 | But the snake- and lizard-eating species Trigona hypogea has taken the carrion-eating habit to the extreme , depending on it totally for protein . |
| 25 | They seem to creep up on us gradually for reasons that medical science is only now beginning to understand . |
| 26 | Mind you , they come to us sometimes for advice on jobs and that do n't they ? |
| 27 | Conduct money must be sufficient to cover cost of travelling each way and , in addition , a sum specified currently as £15.00 for a police officer or £21.50 for anyone else for compensation for loss of time , but there is provision for increase and updating ; the amounts are specified in the costs appendices . |
| 28 | Ruth searched through it desperately for Adam . |
| 29 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 30 | His WPC was looking at him anxiously for guidance , but he shook his head at her slightly and waited , standing squarely on both feet as he had done in many trying circumstances before . |